OWN CORRESPONDENT, Moroni | Wednesday 8.00pm. UNITED STATES FBI investigators are searching for a Comorian Islamic militant as part of their inquiry into the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, sources in the Comorian capital, Moroni, said on Wednesday. The suspect, Abdallah Mohamed Fadhul, 25, arrived in Moroni on August 14, seven days after […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. TRANSNET has been cross-subsidising some of its business units, using its profitable companies to subsidise its loss making one, the transport department’s Moving South Africa study suggests. The transport parastatal has long denied crossfunding, despite widespread speculation within the sector that it is a common practice by Transnet. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nelspruit | Tuesday 9.15pm. MPUMALANGA’s provincial finance MEC Jacques Modipane on Tuesday said that it is highly probable that Mpumalanga’s Parks Board chief Alan Gray forged his signature on the back of three illegal promissory notes. The notes offer some of South Africa’s prize national parks up as collateral for an illegal R340-million […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 9.00pm. ALMOST half the Alien Investigation Unit in Pretoria has been arrested for taking bribes and sleeping with foreign prostitutes. A senior Home Affairs official has also been arrested, and a further 15 cases are under investigation, SABC3 reports. The arrests, which include the former acting commander of the unit, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Wednesday 9.00pm. AN executive member of the Mpumalanga Taxi Association told the Pietermaritzburg magistrate’s court on Wednesday that he is uanaware of any taxi-related violence. Delani Mncube, charged with murder, was appearing at his bail applictaion. He conceded that he knew five taxi operators, including former MTA chairman Kusakusa Paul Mthetwa, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.15am. FORMER Springbok and Griqualand West rugby coach Andre Markgraaff will quit as coach of Griquas at the end of the year, and may take over the coaching position of the Golden Cats Super-12 team. Markgraaff was recently appointed managing director of Supersport Rugby Holdings, comprising Griquas, Boland Cavaliers and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 10.00pm. VARIOUS projects for the Loxton community in the Northern Cape could not be continued because overseas donor funds paid to the Foundation for Peace and Justice did not arrive, the Cape High Court heard on Monday. A community worker giving evidence at the trial of former anti-apartheid activist, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.15pm. SOUTH African pint-sized Amanda Coetzer, seeded 13th in the US Open Championships, fought her way through an 150-minute monster match at Flushing Meadows on Monday to oust Spaniard Conchita Martinez. Coetzer’s victory secures her a place in the quarter finals of the Grand Slam event. Both baseline sloggers, the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kisanjani | Tuesday 9.00pm. THE rebels fighting to topple Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila have vowed to fight on until he has been ousted. Speaking in the Congolese city of Kisanjani following the failed summit at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, rebel commander Jean-Pierre Ondekane told journalists that the rebels will continue their […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Monday 5.15pm. TAKING its cue from stronger Asian markets, local stock rose like a battered Phoenix as investors returned to the market on Monday. Gold again led the charge, with the index rising 78 points (8,51%) as the gold price soared $1,85 an ounce to $288,70 from its London morning fix. […]